Russian communists and common sense

Reuters reports that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has deemed the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull “repulsive anti-Soviet propaganda”and wants it to be banned in Russia. Why? Because the movie may create a “false image of the Soviet Union in the eyes of the Russian youth” and because “using the specter of communism to scare citizenry is shameless”. Apparently in 1957 the Soviet KGB agents in the United States had no interest in crystal skulls… The party also describes the stars of the movie, Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchet, as “second rate actors” and “chain dogs of the CIA” and calls for preventing them from visiting Russia.

This is not the first bout of the Russians with American movies: in 1996 Duma, the Russian parliament, demanded the ban of another movie, Armageddon, in which a Soviet/Russian space station blows up due to a leaky pipe, because it “disparages the achievements of Russian and Soviet technology.”

Now, Comrades, be careful with that sickle, but use the hammer to drive some sense into your concrete heads, will you…